Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.